Theatre: Muny Opera

Traditionally the two most melancholy
weeks for a road show are "Christmas week" and "St. Louis week."
Excluding the productions of resident stock companies. St. Louis
theatre audiences demand and are diverted by not more than 15 itinerant
shows per winter in the city's two playhouses. But St. Louisans fare
much better in the summer when the Municipal Theatre Association, an
organization of public-spirited citizens under municipal patronage,
presents its twelve-week al fresco repertoire of light opera and
operetta, locally called "Muny Opera." One night last week, St. Louis
playgoers motored,...